New issue 672: Make importorskip work with PEP440 compatible versions https://bitbucket.org/hpk42/pytest/issue/672/make-importorskip-work-with-pep440
Trevor Bekolay: Right now, the docstring for `importorskip` notes that only simple versions (e.g. `1.2.3`, but not `2.3-dev`) can be parsed. A package for parsing PEP440-compatible versions exists in the [`packaging`](https://packaging.pypa.io/en/latest/version/) library. I'd be happy to prepare a PR to introduce a dependency on `packaging`, and use it to do version parsing/ordering in `importorskip` (and possibly other places?) but I wanted to check and make sure you'd be comfortable with adding such a dependency. I could alternatively add it in vendorized form (i.e., copying it into the `pytest` source tree directly). Shall I move forward with such a PR? _______________________________________________ pytest-commit mailing list [email protected] https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pytest-commit
